In this week’s Ted Talk, Schulz focused on experiments that show the cognitive development of babies and how they learn so quickly. She also compared the concept of generalization to babies’ mechanisms of learning in the sense that they need to generalize once they learn a new object and its function. To demonstrate this, Schulz displayed videos in which she showed babies a box with blue and yellow balls. Then a graduate student would pull three of the blue balls out of the box and then squeeze them making them squeak. Then the babies were presented with the yellow balls and as expected, they squeezed the yellow balls and made them squeak as well. They generalized what they saw with the blue balls to the yellow balls based on imitation.
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